Minnesota State University Moorhead News Releases October 2006

Wang Ping featured in McGrath Series
MSUM residence halls host community Halloween Bash
Norway pianist, visual artist in concert Nov. 6
Six photographs document lack of affordable housing
Buddhist monks talk meditation, teaching Nov. 2
Muslim activist speaks on American-Islamic Relations
$65,000 grant helps MSUM students teach Sudanese children reading
New Rivers Press Literary Festival
Dist. Court Judge Webb talks on Constitution Oct. 16
MSUM hosts Orchestra Concert, Festival Oct. 13-17
Multi-media art exhibit showing at gallery
Angry Filmmaker Baker showing films at MSUM Oct. 4
McGrath Writers series features screenwriter Tony Buba
Dakota Medical Foundation gives MSUM $10,000
Playwright lectures on the art & craft Oct. 5
Theatre season opens with 'Oedipus/Antigone'
Small business resource fair Oct. 16
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AWARD WINNING ST. PAUL AUTHOR WANG PING FEATURED IN MSUM'S MCGRATH SERIES NOV. 8
Wang Ping, raised in a farming village on a small East China Sea island and author of the acclaimed short story collection “American Visa,” will talk on the writer’s craft at 4 p.m. and read from her work at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 8 in the university’s Comstock Memorial Union 101 as a feature of MSUM’s Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series.

Ping left China in 1985, earning her doctorate from New York University. She’s also author of the novel “Foreign Devil,” the poetry collection “Of Flesh & Spirit,” the cultural study “Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China” and most recently “The Magic Whip,” a second poetry collection. She lives in St. Paul and teaches at Macalester College. “Aching for Beauty” was a Minnesota Book Award finalist.

MSUM RESIDENCE HALLS & COMMUNITY HOST HALLOWEEN BASH OCT. 31
Keep your little ghosts and goblins safe and warm at the annual Minnesota State University Moorhead Residence Hall Community Halloween Bash, a combined effort with the Moorhead community.

It runs from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 31 in the MSUM residence halls.

Featured events include a Haunted House in Ballard Hall, Box Maze in Dahl Hall, refreshments (hot dogs and sloppy joes) in Dahl Hall, where the Moorhead Police Department Dare car will appear; Nelson Hall Tower of Treats; Kiddie Karnival in Snarr Hall; plus outside kiddie barrel rides. Plenty of signs will be posted to direct trick-or-treaters.

Free parking is available in lot A on 9th Avenue and 14th Street South.

This event is sponsored by MSUM’s Residence Hall Councils and Residence Hall Association, along with the Greenwood/Morningside Neighborhood Association, Taystee Freeze, Hornbacher’s, Moorhead Police Department and Bremer Bank.

GUEST ARTISTS FROM NORWAY
PRESENT NORWEGIAN PIANO
MUSIC AND THE VISUAL ARTS
Trygve Trædal, pianist, and Poul Erik Hansen, vocal scholar, will present a recital at 8 p.m.  Monday, Nov. 6, on MSU Moorhead’s Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gaede Stage. 

Trædal will perform Norwegian piano repertoire, tracing musical Impressionism beginning with  the music of Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) and extending to today’s Norwegian composers. Hansen will discuss the intersections of art and music, demonstrating his thesis with projected visual artworks. 

The concert is free and open to the public.

Trædal received his master’s degree from the University of Oslo, completed a Diploma in Piano Performance at The State Academy in Oslo and gave his concert debut in 1977.  He has taught piano performance at the Music Conservatory of Agder since 1975. In 1994, the Conservatory became a department of Agder College University, where he now teaches.

Trædal has performed frequently as a soloist and chamber musician/ accompanist both in Norway and abroad.  He has released several CDs, including two featuring the piano music of Norwegian composers Alf Hurum and Edvard Grieg. 

Hansen graduated from Jutlandic Academy of Music, (Aarhus, Denmark) with a Vocal Teacher’s Diploma in1975. He held lectureships and directorships at some of the most prestigious music institutions of Norway during the late 1970s and the 1980s (including the National Academy of Music in Oslo, the Northern Norwegian Conservatory in Tromsø, and the Bergen Conservatory).  In 1988 he began his association with Adger University College teaching in Vocal Subjects. 

Hansen has sung major operatic roles and has toured throughout the Nordic countries appearing with the Tromsø Symphony Orchestra and the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra.  In addition, he was appointed touring soloist for over a hundred school concerts and recitals given by the National Music Agency in Norway. He has served on the Council for Research and Artistic Development at Agder University College since 2002.

SIX PHOTOGRAPHERS EXHIBIT
AT MSUM GALLERY LOOKS AT
AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROBLEM
“Portraits of Home,” a photo exhibition about the personal impact of finding affordable housing in Minnesota by a team of six newspaper photographers, will be on display Nov. 6-29 at MSUM’s Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gallery, an event inspired by Homelessness Awareness Month.

It’s a traveling exhibit presented by the Greater Minnesota Housing Fund and features photographs by Ben Garvin from the St. Paul Pioneer Press; Carlos Gonzalez, Stormi Greener and Brian Peterson from the Minneapolis Star Tribune; Eric Hylden from the Grand Forks Herald; and Twin Cities freelancer Cathy ten Broeke. A reception is scheduled from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9.

Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 6. p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays, and Saturdays from 1 to 3 p.m. (Or by special arrangement, e-mail gudmunja@mnstate.edu.)

One of the photographers, Carlos Gonzalez, and the exhibit organizer, Julie Delliquanti, will be giving a presentation in the gallery on Thursday November 9, at 4:30 p.m. This is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

In conjunction with the exhibit, MSUM students are organizing several events aimed at increasing public awareness about the issue of homelessness in the Fargo-Moorhead community. For example, the student chapter of Habitat for Humanity is organizing a sleep-out on the campus mall. Volunteer Visions, and a group of students from Prof. Sue Peterson’s “Communities” class are sponsoring a community-wide food drive. Her students are also conducting a survey on local perceptions of homelessness, and will be assisting in the Dorothy Day House annual fundraiser, “Soup Supper” to be held at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14 in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts gallery foyer. Another student group hand-painted bowls donated by Clay Our Way. These bowls, filled with soup, will be on sale that evening for $10. Also at this supper, a film featuring the Dorothy Day House in Moorhead, created by two MSUM film students last semester, will be shown.

In conjunction with the exhibit, on Monday Nov. 13 from 7-8:30 p.m. in the King Hall Auditorium, there will be a panel discussion on the issue of homelessness. Panelists include: Laura Bauer, mental health provider, SEHSC; Carol Beckstrom, Clay County Social Services; Judy Green, YWCA; Gary Groberg, director, Churches United for the Homeless; Sue Halvorson, Director, Dorothy Day House; Cathy Hogan, Cass County Social Services; Dara Lee, Clay County Housing; Dan Mali, Fargo Moorhead Planning Commission; Rhonda Porter, Social Services director; Russ Richards, Habitat for Humanity; and Duke Schempp, director, People Escaping Poverty.

BUDDHIST SCHOLAR-MONKS TO LECTURE
AT MSUM THURSDAY, NOV. 2 ON
BUDDHIST TEACHINGS AND MEDITATION
The Venerable Dr. Henepola B. Gunaratana, an eminent Buddhist scholar-monk from Sri Lanka, will present a lecture on “Buddhist Meditation Practices” at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2 in MSUM's King Hall Auditorium (Room #110).

Also during the program (which runs until 5:30 p.m.), Rev. Maitipe Wimalasara, who received his Master’s degree in Buddhist Studies at Banaras Hindu University, will speak on the “Teachings of the Buddha.”

The event is free and open to the public and the monks will respond to questions in the later part of the program. Two other Buddhist monks will be available to talk with people individually and answer questions.

The Venerable Gunaratana is one of those rare scholar-teachers who can explain profound Buddhist principles to a Western audience in clear and simple language. He is an authentic spiritual voice from within the Theravada Buddhist tradition, and has extensive experience communicating with American students, particularly through his role as Buddhist chaplain at American University in Washington, D.C., where he received his doctorate.

He is the founder and president of the Bhavana Society, which maintains a renowned Buddhist meditation center in West Virginia. He is also an internationally recognized author and meditation instructor who blends life-long meditation practice with in-depth knowledge of Buddhist teachings and their practical applications.

Among his published books: “The Path of Serenity and Insight,” “Mindfulness in Plain English” and his autobiography, “Journey to Mindfulness.”

The monks will also host a Meditation Session at Downtown Fargo’s Spirit Room at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, and give talks at NDSU from 9-10:30 a.m. that Thursday.

MUSLIM ACTIVIST SPEAKS ON
‘9/11 AND AMERICAN-ISLAMIC’
RELATIONS OCT. 24 AT MSUM
Ahmed Rehab, executive director of the Chicago Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24 in MSUM’s Comstock Memorial Union ballroom on “9/11 and American-Islamic Relations.”

Prior to joining CAIR, the nation's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy group, Rehab was a freelance speaker, writer, and activist in the fields of interfaith collaboration, education, and community outreach.

He is a firm believer in the need to reach out and build bridges as the most effective way to battle ignorance and suspicion. His dream for the future of the Muslim community is to harness and systemize the massive yet untapped colossus that is the young, talented, and skillful Muslim volunteer-base.

Born in Cairo to a chemical engineer and a Russian interpreter, he grew up between Cairo and Manchester, England.

A software engineer by trade, Rehab is also co-founder and president of Ibex Computers based in Des Plaines, Ill.

The Campus Activities Board event is free and open to the public.

Only the fourth SID in college football to reach that mark….
LARRY SCOTT WORKS HIS 400TH
CONSECUTIVE FOOTBALL GAME
MSUM Sports Information director Larry Scott worked his 400th consecutive football game on Saturday when MSU Moorhead and Winona State University met at Winona. Only the fourth SID in all of college football to reach the 400-game plateau, Scott missed his last Dragon football game in 1967.

Scott is a 1963 graduate of Alexandria High School who earned a degree in Mass Communications from MSUM in 1967 and joined the Dragon athletic staff in 1969.

He’s a past member of the Board of Directors of CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) and joined another former Alexandrian Bob Peterson in the CoSIDA Hall of Fame in 1991.

$65,000 GRANT FUNDS MSUM
STUDENT READING CLINIC
FOR SUDANESE CHILDREN
Sudanese children in Moorhead, Fargo and West Fargo schools will receive special after-school tutoring in reading and language arts from Minnesota State University Moorhead education majors under a two-year $65,000 grant from two local foundations.

The Otto Bremer Foundation is providing $60,000 and the FM Foundation $5,000 for a project organized by Doris Walker-Dalhouse, an MSUM professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, and Father Alex Ladou-Kenyi, a priest at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Moorhead who works with the Sudanese community as part of his ministry.

The reading clinics will run from 5 to 6:15 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays beginning this week, involving about 35 Sudanese children and 60 MSUM students—pairing two students with each child.

MSUM students involved in the project are enrolled in a Reading and Language Arts class and have all completed courses in the foundations of literacy.

About 1,000 Sudanese live in the Fargo-Moorhead area.

“It’s a project,” Dalhouse said, “that will not only help Sudanese children meet their potential, but will also provide learning experiences for our emerging educators.”

Dalhouse and her husband Derick, an MSUM Psychology professor, presented a paper at the World Congress in Reading in Budapest this summer based on research conducted with Sudanese families and youth about the academic needs and literacy development of Sudanese children in the FM area. As a liaison to the International Reading Association’s Committee on Africa, she has also traveled twice to Nigeria and worked with African educators to support literacy initiatives in Nigeria.

NEW RIVERS PRESS KICKS OFF
TWO-DAY LITERARY FESTIVAL
Four new authors whose books are being released this fall by New Rivers Press will present a panel discussion on their new work at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18 at Barnes & Nobel in Fargo, kicking off a two-day literary festival sponsored by the Minnesota State University Moorhead publishing house.

New Rivers Press is a not for profit literary small press founded in 1968 by C.W. "Bill" Truesdale that has published over 300 books and is now a part of MSUM. Its dual mission is to publish enduring literature and provide academic learning opportunities for students.

The four authors featured in most of the Wednesday-Thursday festival activities are Beth Alvarado (“Not a Matter of Love,” short stories), Chris Michener (“Numerology and Other Stories”), Purvi Shah (“Terrain Tracks,” poems) and Lisa Gill (“Mortal and Pestle,” poems).

Also scheduled that Wednesday, Oct. 18:
A poetry reading by Lisa Gill and Purvi Shah at 8 p.m in room 101 of MSUM’s student union.

Scheduled Thursday, Oct. 19:
A 4 p.m. fiction reading by Beth Alvarado and Christian Michener in room 101 of MSUM’s student union

A 6 p.m. Poetry Diner Order from a menu of poems and flash fictions served up by the writers themselves (poetry and appetizers free of charge, meals extra: reservations not required) at Zandbroz Books, 420 N. Broadway, Fargo.

And at 8 p.m. in The Spirit Room, 111 N. Broadway, Fargo, the exhibit “Tributaries” opens, featuring 12 artists from Albuquerque, Fargo-Moorhead, and New York City. “Tributaries” is a tri-city art exchange curated by Lisa Gill and Purvi Shah for New Rivers Press. It will be on display throughout the month.

U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE WEBB
SPEAKS HERE MONDAY, OCT 18
ON ARTICLE III OF CONSTITUTION
U.S. District Court Judge Rodney S. Webb will speak on “Article III of the United States Constitution: Does It Still Provide for the Third Branch of Government” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18 in Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Center for Business 109. (NOTE DATE CHANGE ON THIS EVENT, PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED MONDAY, CHANGED TO WEDNESDAY)

His address is the second in this year’s MSUM Constitutional Law Series, which is designed to promote on-going consideration of the U.S. Constitution and its impact on your daily lives.

Webb, a native of Cavalier, N.D., was appointed United States District Judge for the District of North Dakota by Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1987 and became chief judge for the district in 1993. He’s a graduate of the University of North Dakota, where he also earned his law degree.

In private practice for more than 20 years with the Ringsak, Webb, Rice & Metelmann Law firm in Fargo, he served six years as the United States Attorney for the District of North Dakota before being named to the bench. He’s also a retired colonel in the North Dakota Army National Guard.

His appearance on campus is sponsored by MSUM's Political Science department and the university's Academic Affairs office.

MSUM ORCHESTRA WEEKEND FEATURES
PERFORMANCES, CLINICS OCT. 13-17
Performances, clinics and the Second Annual Invitational Orchestra Festival involving 600 regional middle and high school string students will highlight five days or orchestra activities at Minnesota State University Moorhead. It’s all free and open to the public. For details, contact the university’s Music office at 477-2101.

Friday, Oct. 13, 8 p.m., Hansen Theatre, Roland Dille Center for the Arts
"CLASSICALLY COOL"
The MSUM Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Prof. Kirk Moss, opens its season with the "Classically Cool" music of Haydn and Beethoven. Featured will be Haydn's famous trumpet concerto performed by Prof. Tom Strait, chair of MSUM’s Music department. The program concludes with Beethoven's ground-breaking Symphony No. 1 in C-major.

Saturday, Oct. 14, 1 to 3 p.m., Roland Dille Center for the Arts Room 148
"How To Get The Most Of Your Rehearsal Time: A Clinic For String Teachers"
MSUM welcomes guest clinician Prof. Joanne Erwin. Dr. Erwin, director of Music Education at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio. Erwin has presented clinics for the American String Teachers Association and Music Educators National Conference. Her publications include articles in American String Teacher, the American Suzuki Journal, and Teaching Music, as well as the collegiate textbook Prelude to Music Education.

Sunday, Oct. 15, 3 to 6:30 p.m., Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre and Rehearsal Room 100
Fargo-Moorhead Area Youth Symphonies Symposium
Guest Clinician: Prof. Joanne Erwin
Jr. High Youth Symphony Conductor: Brian Cole
Sr. High Youth Symphony Conductor: Jane Linde Capistran
Both the Jr. and Sr. High Youth Symphonies will rehearse at MSUM for an afternoon of learning and performing. Both ensembles will work with guest clinician Erwin.

Monday, Oct. 16 and Tuesday, Oct. 17, Hansen Theatre, Dille Center for the Arts
Second Annual MSUM Invitational Orchestra Festival
Nearly 600 middle and high school string students will participate in the Second Annual MSUM Invitational Orchestra Festival. These students represent 12 orchestras from nine different schools. Participating schools include: Ben Franklin Middle School, Fargo; Fargo South Campus II; Fargo South High School; Cheney Middle School, West Fargo; Century High School, Bismarck; Moorhead Horizon Middle School; Moorhead High School; Irondale High School, New Brighton; Ramsey International Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis. Specific performance times available upon request.

The purpose of the festival is to encourage the musical growth of area orchestra programs by providing teachers and students with a unique opportunity for performance and feedback early in the school year. Each orchestra will receive written and recorded comments (no scores or ratings) from guest clinician Erwin, and MSUM's orchestra director Moss. Following the performance, the clinicians will work with the students on stage.

Additionally, students may participate in an improvisation class led by MSUM faculty members Toby Curtright and Simon Rowe. National Music Standard 3 emphasizes "improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments." The improvisation class will offer hands-on experiences to help traditional school orchestra programs meet this standard.

MULTI-MEDIA STUDENT EXHIBIT
SHOWING AT MSUM GALLERY
A multi-media student exhibit will be on display Monday, Oct. 16 through Wednesday, Nov. 1 at MSUM’s Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gallery.

Gallery hours are: Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Tuesdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 4p.m.

The exhibit will include the work of graduating art students Crystal Aakre, Cody Gilbertson, and Amanda Olson, graphic design; Megan Bohmer, Stacy Ferguson and Alla Parsons, painting; Elizabeth Chinander, Nathan Cote, Kayla Stromberg and Kristy Moen, photography; Katherine Crowley, sculpture; Gerald Nelson, printmaking; and Erin Kelly, mixed media.

A reception is scheduled from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19, in the gallery. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

ANGRY FILMMAKER KELLEY BAKER
SHOWING SHORTS AND CLIPS
WEDNESDAY IN MSUM’S KING HALL
Independent filmmaker Kelley Baker, also known as “The Angry Filmmaker,” will make a presentation of short films and feature clips at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4 in MSUM’s King Hall auditorium. Free and open to the public, it will be followed by a question and answer session with the filmmaker.

Baker has written and directed three full-length features, “Kicking Bird” (2005), “The Glass Care” (2001) and “Birddog” (1999).

He’s also known for his work with other people. He was sound designer on six of Gus Van Sant's feature films including, “My Own Private Idaho,” “Good Will Hunting,” and “Finding Forrester.” He designed the sound on Todd Haynes feature film, “Far From Heaven,” with Dennis Quaid and Julieanne Moore. He was an editor and a sound designer for Will Vinton's “The Adventures of Mark Twain” and on four Claymation Specials for CBS.

Baker also wrote and directed eight short films that have aired on PBS, The Learning Channel, Canadian and Australian television. His films have been shown at Film Festivals like London, Sydney, Annecy and Edinburgh, Sundance, Chicago and Mill Valley.

He is currently self distributing his short and feature films, and working on a book tentatively titled, “The Angryfilmmaker's Guide to Independent Filmmaking.”

He’s known as the Angry Filmmaker primarily because of his belief that: “The corporate independent film world doesn't want you, or your movie. The odds are your film isn't going anywhere unless you do it yourself. That's what I am doing. I'm making movies, touring, teaching workshops, having screenings, and self distributing my work.”

Buba’s work has been showcased on on-person shows at The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Carnegie Museum of Art and more than 100 other museums and universities. He’s currently producing an anthology of films under the working title “Laundromat.”

MSUM RECEIVES $10,000 DAKOTA
MEDICALFOUNDATION GRANT
FOR NURSING SCHOLARSHIPS
Minnesota State University Moorhead’s Alumni Foundation has received a $10,000 grant from Dakota Medical Foundation to support the university’s Nursing Scholarship program.

MSUM Alumni Foundation aids and promotes excellence in the education, research, and charitable activities of MSUM by receiving, managing, and
disbursing private gifts for the benefit of the University.

Dakota Medical Foundation, based in Fargo, focuses its efforts on improving access to medical and dental care. Since its inception in 1995, the Foundation has invested over $26.5 million in more than 270 non-profit organizations to help them measurably improve health and access to healthcare. For more information, see www.dakmed.org.

PLAYWRIGHT ORLANDO LECTURES ON
ART, CRAFT OF PLAYWRITING THURSDAY
Jerome Fellow Dominic Orlando will give a lecture entitled "The Art & Craft of Dramatic Writing, Presented Artfully by a Crafty Dramatist" at 4 pm on Thursday, October 5 in CMU 101.

Orlando is a CORE Member of the Playwrights’ Center of Minneapolis whose plays include Juan Gelion Dances for the Sun, which was performed by Crowded Fire Theatre in San Francisco this past March, and Monkey Sun, which was produced by Aurora Theatre’s Global Age Project in May.  He has worked with The Guthrie Theatre, Nautilus Music-Theater, The Jungle Theater, Teatro del Pueblo in Minneapolis and the Cornucopia Arts Center in Lanesboro, as well as theater companies in New York City and Munich, Germany.

The lecture is sponsored in part by the New Plays on Campus Program of the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis.

For further information, please contact Richard Zinober in the English Department at 477-2690.

Oct. 3-7….
MSUM OPENS THEATRE SEASON
WITH UNIQUE PRODUCTION OF
THE CLASSIC ‘OEDIPUS/ANTIGONE’
MSUM Theatre kicks off its season with the classic Greek tragedy “Oedipus/Antigone” by Sophocles at 7 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Oct. 3-7, in the university’s Roland Dille Center for the Arts Hansen Theatre.

Adapted and directed by MSUM Prof. Craig Ellingson, the show follows Sophocles' classic 2,400-year-old tale of the doomed Theban king.

In this unique production, the two plays are fused together, with a contemporary edge. The Greek chorus has been replaced by media reporters and royal advisors; the togas have been replaced by Matrix-inspired clothing; and choral chants and odes have been replaced by dance club inspired music, mixed with traditional sounding Greek instruments.

For ticket information, please contact the MSUM Box Office at 477-2271. Visa, MasterCard and Discover accepted.

MSUM HOSTS FREE SMALL BUSINESS RESOURCE FAIR MONDAY, OCT. 16
Minnesota State University Moorhead will host a free regional Small Business Resource Fair from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 16 in the Center for Business on campus.

It’s aimed at new and existing business owners or anyone launching a new startup or just thinking of a future venture.

The event features 15 free workshops on subjects ranging from small business financing and online marketing to government contracting, writing a business plan, the art of negotiation and whether to incorporate or not.

More than 25 exhibitors––including government agencies, nonprofits, education institutions and lenders from Minnesota and North Dakota––will also be part of the event.

For more information or to register for the event, contact Jackie Seifert at 218-477-2289 or e-mail her at seifertj@mnstate.edu.

Online information is available at: http://www.mnsbdc.com.

The fair is sponsored by the U.S.. Small Business Administration, Counselors to America’s Small Business and the Minnesota and North Dakota Small Business Development Centers.